Lubricated Substrates, or How to Wash Your Hair with Crude Oil

ACTION: CLEANSE WITH CRUDE OIL

For the past two years artist Elia Vargas has been working with crude oil as a material and as media. His crude oil source is, unthinkably, Edgar Cayce, the father of the new age movement. Vargas investigates the deep history of crude oil as a medicinal ointment, and underpins this consideration with crude oil’s history as an energy source. This complicated history touches on the spiritual, the immaterial, and the very real infrastructure that began the global pursuit of oil as an energy commodity in the 1850s. For 100Days Action, artist Elia Vargas will wash his hair with the product. This project will be done in collaboration with Shimeko.

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